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Celebrities Who Starred In Bizarre, Hilarious, And Completely Extra Commercials

Commercials are designed to reflect the hottest trends of the moment, so it’s no surprise that sometimes they don’t age well.

Although many commercials show our favorite K-pop and K-drama celebrities looking gorgeous, beautiful, and composed, sometimes a commercial will go for a totally-out-there concept that comes back to embarrass the celebrities later in their careers.

Some of these commercials are adorably vintage in their reflections of what used to be popular, while some are recent ones that – while not embarrassing per se – have asked their stars to perform some interesting things in the name of selling their product.

Here are some examples of commercials starring Korean celebrities with bizarre concepts:

Before there was Yeo Jin Goo, there was Yoo Seung Ho. While there was no cloning involved here, somehow that makes the little song and dance he does even funnier. Also, there is some serious eyebrow game at the beginning.

Yoo Seung Ho And Kim Dong Young Meditate As A Storm Approaches On “My Strange Hero”

“My Strange Hero” tells the story of Kang Bok Soo (Yoo Seung Ho), a man who returns to his high school, 9 years after being expelled on allegations of school violence and bullying, to enact his revenge, only to find himself caught up in a completely different situation. Kim Dong Young plays Lee Kyung Hyun, his closed friend and head of the Your Wish company.

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In episode 17 and 18, Bok Soo emptied his emergency funds to officially request Your Wish to enact revenge against Oh Se Ho (Kwak Dong Yeon). Bok Soo, Kyung Hyun, and Min Ji (Park Ah In) uncover a dark connection between a college entrance guidance academy and Seol Song High School, along with corruption surrounding the school’s debate competition. Meanwhile, Se Ho tries to force students from Wild Flower class to move schools and also revokes their victory at the debate competition.

With such adversities facing them, Bok Soo and Kyung Hyun take the students to meditate and band together. Bok Soo and the students sit across from Kyung Hyun, who is teaching them how to meditate and bring up their morale. It will be interesting to see how the idea was hatched, and what effect it will have on the students.

The production staff stated, “Bok Soo begins his revenge and the conflict between Yoo Seung Ho and Kwak Dong Yeon will be kicked up a notch. Please anticipate what Yoo Seung Ho and Kim Dong Young have planned for the students.”

The upcoming episode will air on January 14 at 10 p.m. KST. Catch up with the latest episodes below!

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4 Scenes That Prove That Yoo SeungHo Is Also Good In Comedy In “My Strange Hero”

Yoo SeungHo in the past mentioned that he had no confidence in acting comical and bright scenes.

If you have been following the actor’s dramas, he previously acted in many non-funny characters. These characters had a heavy dark and/or sad situation. The actor started to open to more bright roles especially with the comical movie “Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River” in 2016 and his first romantic comedy in 2017 “I’m Not a Robot”.

“My Strange Hero” is a romantic comedy drama that tells the story of BokSoo that was unfairly expelled from his high school because he was accused of being a school bully. When he is an adult, he plans to get revenge by going back to the school. However, it did not go as planned. He starts to get in trouble again and get linked to love again. For more information and picture about the drama, you can check our cast and summary here.

1- Delivering Bulgogi Burgers (Bul-burg)

Yoo SeungHo shows his funny ice skating skills as he runs as fast as he can to buy the Bulgogi Burgers at the store of the high school for his classmates. He is sacrificing himself to help his nephew that was asked to go buy them by the bullies.

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2- Cute Interactions With His Teacher

In the drama, Yoo SeungHo is close to his teacher (former main professor and current professor at his high school). He has entertaining interactions with the teacher

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3- Tearing His Pants

Yoo SeungHo was never a clever and hard-working student. He is more a trouble-maker. His teacher gave him many punishments. This one ended up in a funny way

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4- Acting Cute To His Mother

Yoo SeungHo might not be the perfect student but his heart is gold. He cares for his mother and his cuteness toward her is funny

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#10YearChallenge: The Trend That Didn’t Take Korea By Storm, But Here It Is Anyway

The #10YearChallenge, or — the more apt version for us age-at-a-normal-rate folk — “How hard has aging hit you challenge,” is running rampant through the interwebs, with friends and celebrities alike sharing then-and-now photos of their transformation, or lack thereof, from 2009 to 2019.

Korean celebrities have, for the most part, pointedly ignored this trend — why, we cannot fathom — so here you go, you ageless monsters. We did it for you.

Exclusively from ourfavorite dramasof 2009 and some that we truly did not know existed, here are 16 celebrities, then and now:

Yoo Seung Ho Gets a Selfie Lesson from Kwak Dong Yeon!

On January 15, Yoo Seung Ho dropped a few pictures of him and Kwak Dong Yeon on his social media account.

In the pictures, both of them are looking at the camera with a smile on their faces.

Along with the pictures, Yoo Seung Ho wrote, "Thanks for the tip, brother."

It seems like these two young actors became good friends while filming SBS' Monday-Tuesday drama 'My Strange Hero' and Kwak Dong Yeon gave Yoo Seung Ho a few pointers on how to take great selfies.

After a while, Yoo Seung Ho who was known for his not-so-impressive selfie skills managed to get a few good shots with the help of Kwak Dong Yeon.

About two weeks ago, Yoo Seung Ho shyly confessed that he is not good with selfies by leaving a cute note on his social media account that said, "I mean, I did try to take a selfie. But I think there is something wrong with my cell phone or my hands."

He added, "I'm posting one of the prettiest pictures in my phone. This is one of the good ones."

Ever since then, Yoo Seung Ho only posted the pictures of him taken by other people and selfies which totally failed to capture his jaw-dropping beauty.

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Many of Yoo Seung Ho's fans are desperately hoping that he could benefit from Kwak Dong Yeon's one-on-one lesson and learn a thing or two about selfies.

Yoo Seung Ho Tries To Hold Back Tears As Troubles Approach Him On “My Strange Hero”

“My Strange Hero” tells the story of Kang Bok Soo (Yoo Seung Ho), who returns to his high school after being expelled nine years ago for false accusations of school bullying and violence. He runs into his first love Son Soo Jung (Jo Bo Ah) and goes up about Oh Se Ho (Kwak Dong Yeon) to get his revenge.

The new stills raise expectations for an emotional scene from Yoo Seung Ho in the upcoming episode. Kang Bok Soo is standing in front of Son Soo Jung’s home, holding back tears in his eyes. He looks off at a distance before his expression hardens and he tries to hide his sorrow, though he does not succeed

In order to prepare for the role, which required Yoo Seung Ho to be smiling brightly one second and be close to sobbing the next, he discussed the scene with the director and then stood to the side by himself to get into character. A sudden snowfall had staff members scrambling to handle the situation, but Yoo Seung Ho was able to create an emotional and moving scene.

The production staff stated, “Yoo Seung Ho has been doing his best, giving Kang Bok Soo his 100 percent to express emotions of excitement, happiness, and sorrow. Please tune in to see what new situation faces Kang Bok Soo.”

The upcoming episode of “My Strange Hero” will air on January 21 at 10 p.m. KST. Catch up with the latest episode below

January Brand Reputation Rankings For Drama Actors Revealed

The Korean Business Research Institute has announced this month’s brand reputation rankings for drama actors!

The rankings were determined through a data analysis of the media coverage, participation, interaction, and community indexes of 100 actors who appeared in dramas that aired between December 18 and January 19.

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I am waiting for the english news. Let's hope soompi will cover this because this is big and shocking news for fans - but not shocking for me. YSH's agency is San ent and it is a one man agency who all this time managed him, since childhood. So this is a big step and it explains the deletion of the first IG account, yooseungho.san.official. It means for months, he has been planning to part away with his agency. Some fans will ask why. But the answer is simple : San ent has failed to give proper management to him and is the biggest reason why most of his recent projects are bad or didn't achieve success :

Joseon Magician is a flop

Kim Sun Dal underperformed

Remember had high ratings but was a sleeper drama, meaning that it didn't become a buzzworthy and popular drama

Ruler is a messy drama that was touted to be another Moonlight Drawn by Clouds, it gathered mild reaction, buzz and ratings. Everyone expected it to be a hit drama but it failed to meet expectations

I am not a Robot was a flop, a real flop in Korea but achieved some popularity overseas despite a very thin plot and the fact that the writing milked YSH's melo acting skills to cover the plotholes and drag the drama.

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Since his military discharge YSH has been struggling, I predicted he would soon face a wall and need to make a choice : either to find an actors agency or continue to spiral down. He made his choice now.

I already talked about the poor management of San ent some years ago and had lengthy discussions with other Yoopies here and privately. These past months I've been ranting about it endlessly and I almost lost hope on him.

Some said to me he would never leave his agency because he has been working with the same people since childhood. It happened today

I will fully support his decision and I wish he will find a good home agency that suits him and takes care of him well.